Would people find it useful if Hatrack had a separate arena for such material to be passed on to the next generation? I know that I wish I had known about some of these sites when I first joined.

For example, I've participated recently in another forum dealing with structure and outline. The person who runs it is an author of four books published by small presses, and he has recently begun his own publishing business as "a hobby." He told me "Scene and Structure" is one of the few writing books that actually taught him something that made a difference in his progress towards being published. I bought it, saw what he meant, and now I'm benefiting.

I don't want to promote any one site at this point, but if anyone is interested, check out http://writingacademy.com. It's a site for Doran William Cannon, a (retired?) Hollywood screenwriter who owns a retreat and runs an online structuring class. His friend, the one mentioned above, graciously runs the forum that centers on DWC’s ideas. You'll find the link to the forum, and you can get a sense of this approach to structuring through the brief lessons that accompany the forum. They won't force you to take the online course.

In fact, I'll go so far as to put my money where my mouth is. If Kathleen can't do it. I will, on my personal website, and make it available to all writers.

Here's the kind of thing I think should go in such a forum:

Here's a great place to go for some historical information on European martial arts.

http://www.thehaca.com/HEMA.htm

I can put them up, but I'm not sure how you want to work them.

Would someone be willing to go through the Open Discussion area and find where things are discussed and then create topics (or maybe just one topic, with a list of links) in the FAQs area with links to the discussions? Maybe it should be just a Links area and the FAQs list would be one topic in the area.

Thanks Kathleen!!!!

So, until then, have a great 25 November.